Exhibition
Love, Land, & Deception:
Deconstructing the Patriarchy
On Display at the Chicago Art Department
June 14–July 26 2024
1926 South Halsted Street | Chicago
AnySquared Curators | Cielo Estrella Aguilera • Sara Laureano • Cara Mastanduno • Mario R. Salinas • Sofia Brunwin • Pamela Trejo • Insidious Studios • Andrew Ramirez • Akira Iyashikei • Tracy Kostenbader • @ne2_gallerysquared
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Love, Land, and Deception: Deconstructing the Patriarchy is a collective exhibition at Chicago Art Department that aims to portray ways in which the patriarchy affects both the land and our bodies, a relationship that is inextricable; while also allowing us to imagine futures and ways of being to exist outside of this binary narrative and structure of deception.
It is this relationship with land that the patriarchy targets to keep us coping and healing individually which has kept us trudging alone in the treachery of its violence for thousands of years; because of that, the works in this show seek to propose new or ulterior modes of being as a larger community to combat this system of deception. This exhibition asks us to envision a world beyond “ownership” or “reclamation,” concepts that are inherently tied to domination, colonialism, and white supremacy.
As a group project, Love, Land, and Deception is a collective development of ideas about how the relationship with land is necessary for true liberation of our minds and bodies. It is a group expansion of concepts fleshed out in Black and Indigenous Futures exhibition by Akira, which expressed the healing energy that emanates from the hands who work the soil to harvest and sustain others. Restorative practices such as this may help us learn the true foundations of love and its power to transform from within.
Love, Land, and Deception group exhibition seeks to recognize deceptions of the patriarchy while revealing its individual and global impacts, and to introduce us to the possibilities of new realities. A renewed sense of love and a relationship with the land can forge the pathway to dismantling the system as a whole.
The exhibition seeks to: Explore and define the structure, system, and dynamics of the patriarchy; Investigate the patriarchies’ intersectional effects on different bodies, minds, communities, and the land; amPropose actions for remediation, healing, and deconstruction of the patriarchy at the individual, community, and/or systemic level.
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Exhibition Artists | Giovanna Aguirre-Peresson • Noa Alemán • Lex Applewhite • Danielle Arend • Bria Bridges • Luis Carrasco • Katie Cercone • San Chen • Juana Duran Charicata • Jason Guzman • Insidious Studios • Akira Iyashikei • Tai Kojro-Badziak • Kevin C. Lawler • Sara Laureano • Sunshine Lombre • Catherine (Yiwen) Lyu • Lisa Mannion • Victor Manuel Manzo Meneses • Dani Massey • Cara Mastanduno • Toni Maugeri • Mark Nelson • Earica Parrish • Gabriel Patti • Luna Rail • Maria Requenia • Amiya Ross • Evelyn Rubi Hernandez • Kaltra Seferi • Zelda Jane Thorn • Hope Wood • Araceli Zuniga